Abstrakt
Geography forms an inherent part of the relationships that emerged and persisted before, during, and after World War II. Building on the spatiality of the Holocaust, the third volume of the European Holocaust Studies probes the social exclusion of Jews, physical violence, betrayal but also survival, in a number of settings.
In the nine research articles, an essay, a source description, and three research papers included here, concentration and death camps, no man's lands, rural areas, and large cities are brought to the forefront of scholarly analysis. In doing so, this volume makes also a case for interdisciplinarity, for the incorporation of the methods and approaches of not only history, political science, and memory or cultural studies, but also ethnology, anthropology, geography, and archeology.
As we are convinced, the longed-for integrated history of the Holocaust cannot be separated from the categories of space and place, and that the examining of events in their respective settings requires the integration of processes on the ground.